Jeremy Bentham
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Jeremy Bentham was an English philosopher and legal reformer best known as the founder of modern utilitarianism, advocating that laws and actions should aim to maximize overall happiness.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jeremy Bentham canonical | 60 |
| Bentham | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T124361 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jeremy Bentham Context triple: [John Stuart Mill, influencedBy, Jeremy Bentham]
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A.
John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill was a 19th-century British philosopher and political economist known for his influential works on utilitarianism, liberty, and liberal democratic theory.
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James Mill
James Mill was a Scottish historian, economist, political theorist, and prominent utilitarian philosopher associated with Jeremy Bentham and the early 19th-century British reform movement.
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C.
Cesare Beccaria
Cesare Beccaria was an Italian Enlightenment philosopher and jurist best known for his influential treatise "On Crimes and Punishments," which argued for criminal justice reform and against torture and the death penalty.
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D.
David Hume
David Hume was an 18th-century Scottish philosopher and historian known for his influential empiricism, skepticism, and naturalistic approach to human understanding.
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E.
Montesquieu
Montesquieu was an influential French Enlightenment philosopher best known for his theory of the separation of powers, which profoundly shaped modern constitutional government.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jeremy Bentham Target entity description: Jeremy Bentham was an English philosopher and legal reformer best known as the founder of modern utilitarianism, advocating that laws and actions should aim to maximize overall happiness.
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A.
John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill was a 19th-century British philosopher and political economist known for his influential works on utilitarianism, liberty, and liberal democratic theory.
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B.
James Mill
James Mill was a Scottish historian, economist, political theorist, and prominent utilitarian philosopher associated with Jeremy Bentham and the early 19th-century British reform movement.
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C.
Cesare Beccaria
Cesare Beccaria was an Italian Enlightenment philosopher and jurist best known for his influential treatise "On Crimes and Punishments," which argued for criminal justice reform and against torture and the death penalty.
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D.
David Hume
David Hume was an 18th-century Scottish philosopher and historian known for his influential empiricism, skepticism, and naturalistic approach to human understanding.
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E.
Montesquieu
Montesquieu was an influential French Enlightenment philosopher best known for his theory of the separation of powers, which profoundly shaped modern constitutional government.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (78)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Enlightenment thinker
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human ⓘ legal theorist ⓘ philosopher ⓘ social reformer ⓘ utilitarian ⓘ |
| advocatedFor |
abolition of slavery
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animal welfare ⓘ codification of laws ⓘ decriminalization of homosexuality ⓘ democratic reforms ⓘ expanded suffrage ⓘ freedom of expression ⓘ legal positivism ⓘ prison reform ⓘ separation of church and state ⓘ |
| autoIconLocation | University College London ⓘ |
| burialPlace | University College London ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1748-02-15 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1832-06-06 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Lincoln's Inn
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The Queen's College, Oxford ⓘ Westminster School ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English ⓘ |
| familyName |
Jeremy Bentham
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Bentham
|
| fieldOfWork |
economics
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jurisprudence ⓘ legal reform ⓘ moral philosophy ⓘ political philosophy ⓘ social reform ⓘ |
| fullName | Jeremy Bentham self-link ⓘ |
| givenName | Jeremy ⓘ |
| hasPart | auto-icon of Jeremy Bentham ⓘ |
| hasPhilosophicalConcept |
act utilitarianism
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hedonic calculus ⓘ
surface form:
felicific calculus
greatest happiness of the greatest number ⓘ |
| influenced |
Henry Sidgwick
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James Mill ⓘ John Austin ⓘ John Stuart Mill ⓘ legal positivism ⓘ modern utilitarianism ⓘ welfare economics ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Helvétius
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surface form:
Claude Adrien Helvétius
David Hume ⓘ John Locke ⓘ |
| knownFor |
advocacy of legal and social reform
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design of the Panopticon prison ⓘ founding modern utilitarianism ⓘ hedonic calculus ⓘ principle of utility ⓘ the greatest happiness principle ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | natural causes ⓘ |
| movement |
Age of Enlightenment
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surface form:
Enlightenment
classical liberalism ⓘ utilitarianism ⓘ |
| notableIdea |
linking punishment to deterrence and utility
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rights as legal fictions rather than natural rights ⓘ utilitarian basis for legislation ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Fragment on Government
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An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation ⓘ Constitutional Code ⓘ Panopticon; or, The Inspection-House ⓘ On Crimes and Punishments ⓘ
surface form:
The Rationale of Punishment
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| philosophicalSchool | utilitarianism ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
England
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Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ London, England ⓘ
surface form:
London
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| placeOfDeath |
England
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London, England ⓘ
surface form:
London
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| positionHeld |
leading figure at University College London
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member of Lincoln's Inn ⓘ |
| religion | deism ⓘ |
| residence |
London, England
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surface form:
London
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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Referenced by (61)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
John Stuart Mill
this entity surface form:
Bentham
subject surface form:
John Stuart Mill